Sunday is a good day to make a run up to U-district to check out the used book-stores and music stores (yes, they still sell CDs there).
I never did make it to the city of Xi’an (capital of Shaanxi Province in central China) when I was working there, to see the terracotta warriors. Here is the cool window display, though, of Taste of Xi’an on University Way. One of their signature dishes is called paomo: a broth that we used is slow cooked with lamb, beef bones and whole chicken more than 10 hours every day.Supreme, purveyor of New York-style pizza, also on University Way. (New Yorkâstyle pizza is pizza made with a characteristically large hand-tossed thin crust, often sold in wide slices to go).A cosmetics store with Japanese brands, and a burger joint across the street. University Way is in decent shape without too much damage, but man! some of the street blocks have back alleys that look downright awful (trash and graffiti).The Varsity Theatre is in the same block that sits on the light rail U-district station. Right behind it, the construction of a new 13-story office block with retail space is underway.Not a pretty sight. This trashed entrance and empty space in a prime location, on the corner of 45th Street and University Way. It used to have a Bartell drug store inside. Evidently the Bartell store could not make enough profit even after being taken over by Rite Aid Corporation .. but I wonder how much effort Rite Aid really put in to keep the store afloat.Here’s the northbound train at U-district station. Just a minute later the southbound train on the opposite track arrived and took me back to Capitol Hill.
